Howard da Silva played Benjamin Franklin in the Broadway musical 1776. He had a heart attack four days before it opened, but insisted on being in the first four shows so critics could see him. He also played the role in the movie.
During the filming of Apocalypse Now in the Philippines, actor Martin Sheen (“Captain Willard”) suffered a heart attack and had to struggle a quarter of a mile to reach help.
Fleet Captain Christopher Pike was played by two different actors in the Star Trek episodes “The Cage” and “The Menagerie.”
Kirk Douglas played Jim, the “Gentleman Caller,” in the 1950 movie version of Tennessee Williams’ semi-autobiographical The Glass Menagerie.
Johnny Weissmuller of Tarzan fame starred as “Jungle Jim” in the 1950s TV series of the same name.
In 1920 Sebastian Hays patented a type of playground equipment which he sold under the name of “Junglegym.”
The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral censorship guidelines that governed the production of most American motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Hollywood’s chief censor of the time, Will H. Hays.
The Tigers of Fort Hays State, a school located in Kansas, have won national titles in both men’s and women’s basketball. The men won back-to-back National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) crowns in 1984 and '85, then moved to the NCAA’s Division II, eventually winning the 1996 tournament. The women cut down the nets after their 1991 NAIA tourney triumph.
A tiger can only usually expect a one in 20 success rate when bringing down prey.
The Grumman F11F Tiger was the first supersonic, single-seat carrier-based United States Navy fighter aircraft in operation during the 1950s and 1960s. It was redesignated the F-11 in 1962 as part of a new common system of nomenclature for all US armed forces.
On January 3, 1962, Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.
San Francisco’s Castro Street was named for José Castro (1808–1860), a Californio leader of Mexican opposition to U.S. rule in California in the 19th century, and alcalde of Alta California from 1835 to 1836. The neighborhood now known as the Castro was created in 1887 when the Market Street Railway Company built a line linking Eureka Valley to downtown.
Scott Mackenzie’s Summer of Love hit “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” was written by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas.
Among John Philip Sousa’s best known marches are “The Washington Post”, “Semper Fidelis” - the Official March of the United States Marine Corps, and “The Stars and Stripes Forever” - the National March of the United States of America. John Philip Sousa was a Marine.
John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas is notorious for having repeatedly raped his young daughter MacKenzie Phillips.
Mackenzie River Huskies were bred as freight sled dogs, for transporting heavy loads through deep snow.
The Iditarod sled dog race takes place from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska.
There have been four warships named USS Alaska to serve in the U.S. Navy. The current one is an Ohio-class Trident ballistic missile submarine, commissioned in 1986.
In the Hitchcock movie Saboteur, a Nazi agent (played by Norman Lloyd) succeeds in mining the battleship USS Alaska as it’s being launched.
The USS Alaska (CB-1) was the lead ship of the Alaska class of large cruisers which served with the United States Navy during the end of World War II. She was the first of two ships of her class to be completed, followed only by Guam; four other ships were ordered but were not completed before the end of the war.